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The Sports Xchange By Rick Cushing, The Sports Xchange Kentucky Derby win fulfill's Orb trainer's lifelong dream LOUISVILLE -- Orb, who was 16th in the early going and 17th after six furlongs, circled the field on the final turn and powered to a 2 1/2-length victory in the $2 million Kentucky Derby Saturday at historic Churchill Downs. The chestnut son of Malibu Moon (hence his name) covered 1 1/4 miles on a track rated sloppy in 2:02.89 and paid $12.80 as the favorite in a field of 20 3-year-olds.

- Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said last week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, a race he, like any trainer, has dreamed of winning. But the Hall of Famer knew there was only one way truly to enjoy the Derby: Win it. Running over a sloppy Churchill Downs track that left 19 contenders caked in mud, McGaughey's horse Orb found stable footing and a late lead Saturday in the 139th running of the Derby.

The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: Resending: Man died at hospital Heart attack victim dies despite Nationals trainers' efforts Despite quick thinking and a rapid response by Washington Nationals' trainers, a 61-year-old man who suffered a heart attack at Turner Field before Wednesday night's game died. Head athletic trainer Lee Kuntz had just arrived in the training room in the visitors' clubhouse when Reuben Porras, an MLB Network employee suffered a heart attack while carrying equipment, the Washington Times reported.

The Sports Xchange Nationals' trainers revive heart attack victim Quick thinking and a rapid response by Washington Nationals' trainers might have helped save the life of an Atlanta man at Turner Field on Wednesday. Head athletic trainer Lee Kuntz had just arrived in the training room in the visitors' clubhouse when a local worker who was carrying equipment outside the clubhouse suffered a heart attack, the Washington Times reported. Using an automated defibrillator in the training room and administering CPR to the man, who was not breathing, Kuntz and training assistant John Hsu were able to revive the victim.

It looks like former Chicago Bear Bob Christian will have to find another place in Northbrook to stack his weights. Christian, who began his 11-year NFL career with the Bears in 1992, co-owns of the Northbrook-based athletic training facility TCBOOST, which is looking for a new location. Christian thought he found it in a vacant warehouse in the village's Sky Harbor Industrial Park. Although he said the building was perfect, the land it sat on was not. Northbrook's zoning law prohibits a business like Christian's to set up shop in an area zoned strictly for industrial use. He thought he would try his luck by appealing to Northbrook's Village Board of Trustees.

SYDNEY, April 29 (Reuters) - Australian horse racing has lurched into the headlines again following a very public split between thoroughbred owner John Singleton and high-profile trainer Gai Waterhouse at the weekend amid allegations of insider information. Singleton withdrew all seven of his horses under Waterhouse's supervision on Sunday, a day after a televised spat between the pair at Sydney's Royal Randwick where the 71-year-old businessman's runner More Joyous disappointed with a second-to-last finish in the Group One All Aged Stakes.

Even if Carlos Silva had been wearing a blindfold he probably could have found the Hawthorne Race Course winner's circle after Diva's Diamond, the filly he trains for owner-breeders Richard and Gail Radke, captured Saturday's Peach of It Handicap Illinois-bred for fillies and mares by a neck in a photo-finish with Braden's Dreams. During a jockey career in which he won more than 3,500 races in the U.S. and South America, the 56-year-old native of Chile was the Hawthorne titlist in 1980 and 1982.

Eight years ago Bellamy Road went into the Kentucky Derby as the favorite after carrying the colors of late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to a 171/2-length victory in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. Bellamy Road's son, Chatfield Road, did something similar last November when he made his debut for owner-breeder John Carver at Hawthorne Race Course and took a 6-furlong Illinois-bred maiden race by 14 lengths. His next start came in Hawthorne's $125,000 Jim Edgar Futurity and that day he had to work hard to return to the winner's circle — the distance was 11/16 miles and he won a fight to the finish line with Lassell.

By Justin Palmer LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - A place in sporting folklore awaits Katie Walsh if, with a slice of luck, a clear round and a willing partner in Seabass, she can become the first female jockey to win the coveted Grand National at Aintree on Saturday. Since the gruelling steeplechase's inception in 1839, only two women have trained National winners - Jenny Pitman twice - with Corbiere in 1983 and Royal Athlete in 1995 - and Venetia Williams with Mon Mome in 2009. It was not until 1977 that women first competed alongside their male counterparts in the National and the best any have done came last year when Walsh and Seabass took third place having been in strong contention until the closing stages.